V-like formations in flocks of artificial birds

Vie consider flocks of artificial birds and study the emergence of V-like formations during flight. Vie introduce a small set of fully distributed positioning rules to guide the birds' movements and demonstrate, by means of simulations, that they tend to lead to stabilization into several of the well-known V like formations that have been observed in nature. Vie also provide quantitative indicators that we believe are closely related to achieving NI-like formations, and study their behavior over a large set of independent simulations.